McDonald's
Waging a
Chicken-and-Egg
Battle
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McDonald's
and the U.S.
Humane
Society are
battling
over animal
rights. The
USHS
asked
McDonald's
to take a
small number
of its
egg-producing
hens out of
cruel battery
cages.
However,
McDonald's
board of
directors
declined the
Society's
and shareholder's requests.
They say that
there isn't
enough
research to
prove it's
the best
way.

McDonald's
Current Hen
Conditions:

72 square
inches is
all the
space each
each
egg-producing
hen lives
in. This is
smaller than
a sheet of
paper. It
leaves
little room
to move

5% of the
hens is all
the Humane
Society
asked
McDonald's
to raise
outside of
battery
cages.
McDonald's
declined.

Going Cage
Free: McDonald's
is one
of the
largest
chains
not to
switch
to
cage-free
hen
raising.
However,
the company
admits that
Burger
King,
Wendy's,
Denny's, Quiznos,
Carl's
Jr. and
Hardee's
use
cage-free
eggs.

McDonald's
already uses
cage free
hens in
the U.K.
and
Australia.

McDonald's
Board of
Directors
also declined
a
suggestion
from PETA
regarding
the
humane
slaughter
of
chickens.
In fact, they
criticized PETA for
being
PETA.)

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